This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Thursday, May 22nd, 2014.

I'm Caleb Brown.

Gary Kasperov is a long-time chess champion and political activist in Russia. He spoke at the Cato Institute's

Biennial Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty Dinner held at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel

in New York last night.

Thank you for inviting me here today

to speak about few topics dear to my Soviet-born heart, individual freedom, limited government, and

traditional American values. If only my die-hard communist grandfather could see me today.

And my sincerest congratulations for the winner of the 2014 Milton Friedman Prize for

Advancing Liberty, Leschik Bolsterovich. Very much thanks to him.

thanks to him.

Poland has become a success story that gives Vladimir Putin nightmares.

And for that, I personally thank Leshik.

If it can happen in Poland, it can happen in Poland it can happen in Ukraine and that would be an unacceptable role model for Putin

if only the Western current leadership supported Ukraine as passionately as

Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher supported the Polish solidarity movement. Sometimes I can't help by joking that if guys like a bummer and Cameron had been in power in the 80s I will

be still playing chess for the Soviet Union.

In his

1962 book,

Milton Friedman wrote, history suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition

that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom.

Certainly, it is not a sufficient condition.

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